I recently uploaded a photo I just knew would get rejected for badlevel. The plane was turning on a taxiway that was banked and it appears as though the plane was leaning left. Even though I used the guidelines set out and read all the forum posts here, I lined the photo up using background buildings and walls that I knew were straight up and down. Hey, I was there when I took the photo.

Nope, didn't work. I could tell it was going to get the flick because the whole aim of this process is to discourage and reject even when you use the correct processes.

It's not even worth posting the link here. There seems to be a process of getting the photo rejected, then posting it here and getting it torn apart even further by other screeners backing each other up. This process seems to be repeated over and over in this forum. Anyway it seems to have disappeared from the site. It doesn't appear in my rejected list.

So which 'in' crowd do you have to be in to get something posted here.

Did you advise the screener(s) of your thinking using the 'comment to screeners' box? I've had a few pictures where correct look strange, and the easiest thing to do is tell the screener exactly what you were thinking, and then they can make their own mind up.

Show us the pic, if you are right, and I have seen enough of your work to think that is likely, you will get a lot of support from the community.
We all have beefs with screeners sometimes.. that is part of A.net!!

Billsville
I am one of the new photographers added to the database.
I started uploading about 2-3 months ago and I have had about 25 rejections. All but 1 was bad quality. the 1 was bad level. My first one was pathetic compared to what I am processing now. We've all been there before but with practise, you will get a photo up. Processing photos takes a lot of patience. Even the best photographers here still get rejections.

But spelling is still a challenge!!
Seriously, the main reason I joined A.net was to improve my photography and whilst I only have 11 images on the db and (he says a little smugly) only 16 rejections, my photography has improved and my processing has improved many orders of magnitude.
For that I will always be in debt to A.net, not only the screeners but also the photog community that have helped!

You have to be in with the crowd that's prepared to learn and develop their technique...

Quoting Billsville (Thread starter):Nope, didn't work. I could tell it was going to get the flick because the whole aim of this process is to discourage and reject even when you use the correct processes. It's not even worth posting the link here.

...rather than the crowd that bitches and moans, always believes they're right, and won't accept the help and support of others that's actually quite freely available here.

not to have a dig or anything, but why? a.net Isn't the be all and end all of photography. Teaches you what makes a good photo under the photography rules. Get it all in frame, get it level, take it from a nice angle. But really, take the photo for yourself not for other people.

If it wasn't for a.net I would still have a point and shoot, its an inspiring site. For a while when I got a decent camera and I was at the airport or a pad I would think to myself, right, what do I need to do to get a photo accepted here [a.net]

my mate at the airport who's been with a.net since the start and takes brilliant images showed me though what he had taken one day, I was amazed how many just wouldn't fit into any category here, he took them for himself because they were interesting Angles and artistic. so obviously he has the right idea. Now thanks to him I take photos for myself.

Get them printed, put them in an album. If during the course you take a photo that fits into the a.net categories then great upload it. If it gets rejected so what uve still got a great photo that you have taken yourself. If you take a photo for a.net and it gets rejected it sucks you feel like what's the point, if you take a photo for yourself and it gets rejected you still have the satisfaction of knowing its something you wanted. It`ll get very old very fast if when you go out to the airport your only taking pictures for a.net

I might add something else to the mix. There has been a thread here, forgot where, from an anetter who said unless you know your camera inside out and unless you know your photo processing program inside out 4 times over, you have a slim chance of getting a photo accepted here. Know your hardware and software and you will get a photo up.

Quoting Gary2880 (Reply 20):Get them printed, put them in an album. If during the course you take a photo that fits into the a.net categories then great upload it.

Absolutely, since Dec 04 when I got serious about this(again!!) I have pressed the shutter button approx. 9000 times, I have placed 72 images on my pbase gallery and uploaded 40 pics to A.net of these 11 are in db, 16 rejected and 3 are still screening.
Am I happy, hell yeah.. I have lots of fun and have a whole bunch of pics I like that won't get seen here because they don't fit.
Do I get frustrated by screeners.. hell yeah.. but "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!"

Message is ... enjoy what you do, if what you like gets shown here that is a bonus!!

Why do people continue to think there is a conspiracy here? If your photo is good it gets accepted. If your photo is bad it gets rejected. Can't get much easier than that. Not to mention you have many very good opinions here if you want them. So post the pic, ask questions and keep snapping. If you work hard your pics will get accepted!

25 JumboJim747
: Hey Chris i dont know about your spelling because eim a shocker it it also but your maths is a bit out. You have 10 phtos missing by that calculation

26 Senorcarnival
: If you're simply looking to forego quality, go over to myaviation.net, just so you have somewhere to post your work (or get a PBase/photobucket/etc ac

27 JumboJim747
: Billsville With all due respect i have to disagree with you. All you have to do is read some threads in here and you see the imput that the screeners

28 StealthZ
: And 10 are in my dreams... I said my spelling was OK..not my arifmatik!!!! regards Stallfzed

29 JumboJim747
: Hey Chris dont mind if i say you are a great man. With a great sense of humor also . See you at the mound soon

30 Fergulmcc
: Are you Aussie's still awake over and down there? Thought it would be long past your bed time. Fergul

31 Billsville
: Stealthz, I can't attach to an email from this sight... Its discouraging because the whole process is inherently flawed. Its flawed because you just h

32 DC10Tim
: Look for photos that are similar to the one you are uploading, a recent shot of the same aircraft or one of a similar angle of a plane from the same

33 Aviopic
: Probably not, you have become a bit(or a lot) more familiar with PS or equivalent. Because let's face it guys, to meet the current standards we are n